Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every point that he drove home with platitudinous common sense, every uproarious poke at the New Deal invited comparison with the polished plausibility of the Squire of Hyde Park. He made no attempt to grapple with the New Deal in argument. His was what his friends would call an appeal to principle and his enemies an appeal to prejudice. A score of times he made his audience bellow with amusement, yet his address was delivered in a tragic spirit. To Al Smith, the Democracy was in danger, and Al Smith was sounding the alarm...
James Ramsay MacDonald advised King George to appoint this Royal Commission in one of his last acts as Prime Minister, naming as chairman benevolent, octogenarian Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal. Sittings last week were in the half-moon-shaped, oak-paneled Council Chamber of ancient Middlesex Guildhall opposite Westminster Abbey. Acoustics were so poor that proceedings could not be heard in the gallery...
Throughout her career Fremstad retained this ability to work herself into a state of dramatic exaltation. But unlike most singers who have exerted a compelling emotional appeal, everything she accomplished was the result of grueling work. To learn English and to get some schooling, her father bound her out to a Minneapolis family. Great was the sensation when in later years the head of that household refused to pay for a ticket to hear a person sing who had been a "servant" in his family. In Minneapolis Fremstad gave her first formal concert, earned enough to go to Manhattan where...
...Since a lower court ordered the Spencer girls to school, their prosperous parent have sent them to fashionable Starret School. Last week's case, which concerned only the past truancy of Mary Belle, now past school age, came to Criminal Court on the Spencers' appeal. As an attorney for her husband, Mrs. Spencer put her daughter on the stand. Irrepressible Mary Belle testified that: 1) her father feared epidemics of smallpox and measles in the neighborhood school; 2) the pupils there were immoral and obscene. The judge shushed her when she started to name names...
...Memphis Commercial Appeal George Williamson's cotton column is a signed department. Bylines also go to Oil Editor Claude V. Barrow of the Daily Oklahoman and the Dallas Morning News Oil Editor North Bigbee, whose column ot bristling jargon is incomprehensible to anyone except an oilman. The Milwaukee Journal's financial editor is Gustave Pabst Jr., son of the brewing house that helped to make Milwaukee famous...